March 27, 2007
Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery
It looks like The Onion is trying to get in on some of the Daily Show's action. My first impression: nice try, but it needs some work. The piece on immigration was clever, but other bits fell flat (can't the writers come up with something a little less lame than Civil War reenactors going to Iraq?). The Daily Show works because so much of its humor is grounded in the absurdities of politics and real people. The Onion News Network feels like it's broadcast from some weird parallel universe real people don't exist, only caricatures.
Posted by wintermute2_0 at March 27, 2007 09:09 PM